Re: Switching Database Engines - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Carlos Mennens
Subject Re: Switching Database Engines
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Msg-id BANLkTikVaikE6P-nA0oTeoQtC2junhDTYA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Switching Database Engines  ("Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>)
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com> wrote:
> In general, yes. For your specific use case, it might be best to use
> MediaWiki's XML dump and restore. You could also use the conversion
> script that comes with MediaWiki, at:
>
> maintenance/postgres/mediawiki_mysql2postgres.pl
>
> It's a little old so I can't promise it will work with recent versions
> of MediaWiki, but should be enough to get you started testing.

Just to be clear and make sure I understand correctly, I can export
the Wiki info using the MediaWiki XML export tool (which I found) or I
can try to use the MediaWiki tool referenced as
'mediawiki_mysql2postgres.pl', right? I think from reading the
options, I should try the XML export 1st.

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